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Lesson Structure: Animal Husbandry II BAG201 (Animal Health)

There are 10 lessons:

Introduction to Animal Health
Learn to describe common diseases affecting farm animals and the circumstances under which animals contract these diseases - the healthy animal, causes of ill health, preventing ill health
Signs & Symptoms of Diseases
The physical symptoms of diseases in farm animals - common methods of handling animals during health assessments, recognising ill health, restraining a horse, sheep handling facilities
Disease Classification
Methods used in classifying animal diseases
viral diseases, bacterial diseases, parasitic diseases, protozoal diseases, disease types in beef cattle, diseases in sheep
Causes and Diagnosis of Disease
The causes of disease and the relevant methods of diagnosis - examining cattle, examining a horse, ticks, tick-borne diseases, diagnosis of diseases
Treatment of Disease
Methods used in the treatment of diseases in farm animals - vaccination, the animal first aid kit, tetanus antiserum, animal nursing, quarantine, slaughter, post mortem, disease prevention in cattle, disease prevention in sheep, treatment of parasites in sheep
Inflamation
Outline the nature and causes of inflammation in farm animals - the inflammatory response, causes of inflammation, types of inflammation, symptoms of inflammation, inflammatory exudate, treatment of inflammation
Fever and Immunity
The biological mechanisms underlying fever and the immune system in farm animals - the fever mechanism, other temperature related disorders, effect of temperature on enzymes, immunity
Tissue Repair
The biological mechanisms underlying tissue repair in farm animals - healing of a clean incised wound, healing of an open wound, common horse ailments to recognise
Wounds
The biological mechanisms of wounds in farm animals and address different treatment methods for repair of common ailments - types of wounds, first aid treatments, bandaging horses, emergencies
Cell changes
The causes and biological mechanisms of cell change in farm animals - neoplasms, tumours and cancers, the course of an infectious disease, death, cancers etc.
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Learning Goals: Animal Husbandry II BAG201 (Animal Health)

Explain common health problems affecting animals, including the circumstances under which animals contract health problems, and methods used to prevent the development of ill health
Analyse physical indicator symptoms of ill health in animals.
Determine the taxonomic class of animal pests and diseases.
Explain the diagnostic characteristics of the main types of animal pathogenic micro-organisms
Explain the methods used in the treatment of pests and diseases in farm animals
Explain the role of inflammation, including its symptoms and causes, in animals
Explain the biological processes which affect and control the immune system in animals
Explain the biological processes which affect and control tissue repair in animals
Determine procedures for the management of wounds to animals, on a farm
Explain the processes involved in cellular change in animals
Diagnose simple health problems in farm animals
List criteria used to assess the health status, including ill-health, of animals.
Describe the different causes of ill-health in animals.
Explain the methods used to prevent ill-health in animals.
Write a standard procedure for a routine health examination of a chosen farm animal.
Describe the symptoms of ill-health in animals.
Compare the causes of two symptomatically similar health problems for a specified farm animal.
Diagnose a health problem from a given set of symptoms.
Distinguish, using labelled illustrations, between different taxonomic classes of animal pest and disease organisms.
Describe identifying characteristics of four different disease carrying agents of specified farm animals.
Classify commonly occurring pests and diseases of three different animals, into their taxonomic classes.
Describe the characteristics of viruses, using illustrations and a report.
Describe the characteristics of bacteria, using illustrations and a report.
Describe the characteristics of protozoa, using illustrations and a report.
Describe the characteristics of parasites, using illustrations and a report.
Describe the characteristics of nutritional disorders, using illustrations and a report.
Analyse the relevance of ten specified factors, to determining the health of a chosen species of farm animal.
Describe the veterinary treatments available over the counter for on-farm use.
Explain the vaccination programs used to treat two different specifies of farm animal.
Describe the applications and techniques used for dips, to control external parasites in a specified farm animal.
List the essential items for a First Aid Kit for a specified farm animal.
Write guidelines for general procedures to follow when nursing sick farm animals.
List the procedures employed in quarantine, using a chosen animal as an example.
Describe the procedures for slaughtering a diseased ruminant in order to conduct a post-mortem examination.
Prepare an illustrated, one page report on the post-mortem procedures of a ruminant.
Compare different methods used to control a specified disease in animals.
Identify a suitable method of control for ten different, specified pests and diseases.
Differentiate between factors which cause inflammation in animals.
Develop a checklist for analysing inflammation.
Explain the inflammatory response.
Compare the different methods used to control inflammation in animals.Â
Describe the function of the immune system in animals.
List the agents which can cause fevers in animals.
Explain the biology of fevers in a specified case study of an animal species.
Explain the methods used in treating fevers in animals.
Explain at least five factors which influence immune response in animals.
Explain the characteristics of the immune system in a chosen animal species.
Describe the composition of tissues at different body sites, in terms of susceptibility to different types of internal and external damage.
Compare the characteristics of different types of tissue damage.
List factors, in terms of both rate of, and quality of repair; which influence tissue repair.
Explain the biological processes, which occur as damaged tissue heals in animals.
Compare the different effects of wounding, including psychological, physiological and anatomical, to different parts of a specified animals body.
Explain the different biological processes which occur following wounding, including: tissue repair and infection.
Develop a checklist for the treatment of wounds in animals.
List an appropriate treatment for different types of wounds to different species of animals.
Describe post care treatment of the wounds as discussed above.
Determine the potential causes of wounding of animals.
Develop guidelines for prevention of wounds to animals, based on the potential causes identified above.
Describe the different causes of cellular change in animals.
Explain the general processes associated with cancer at a cellular level, in animals.
Explain the cellular processes associated with death of animal tissue.
List factors which influence the rate and extent of cellular change in diseased animals.
Monitor the health condition of an animal over a four month period.
Observe, and prepare a report, on the veterinarians diagnostic process/ health assessment methodology, when inspecting different animals.
Diagnose the cause of different health problems, detected in three different genera of animals.
Develop a checklist of the diagnostic indicators of common health problems, which occur in different animal species.Lesson Structure: Animal Husbandry II BAG201 (Animal Health)

There are 10 lessons:

Introduction to Animal Health
Learn to describe common diseases affecting farm animals and the circumstances under which animals contract these diseases - the healthy animal, causes of ill health, preventing ill health
Signs & Symptoms of Diseases
The physical symptoms of diseases in farm animals - common methods of handling animals during health assessments, recognising ill health, restraining a horse, sheep handling facilities
Disease Classification
Methods used in classifying animal diseases
viral diseases, bacterial diseases, parasitic diseases, protozoal diseases, disease types in beef cattle, diseases in sheep
Causes and Diagnosis of Disease
The causes of disease and the relevant methods of diagnosis - examining cattle, examining a horse, ticks, tick-borne diseases, diagnosis of diseases
Treatment of Disease
Methods used in the treatment of diseases in farm animals - vaccination, the animal first aid kit, tetanus antiserum, animal nursing, quarantine, slaughter, post mortem, disease prevention in cattle, disease prevention in sheep, treatment of parasites in sheep